STOCKTON – A 22-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting near downtown this morning, Stockton police said. Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the police department, identified the victim as Eric Madison, the city's 68th homicide of the year.

Silva also confirmed that a 19-year-old man wounded in a drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon on East Anderson Street in south Stockton died of his injuries Saturday. Silva identified the man as Victor Ibanez.

Madison's death came at the corner of Oak and American streets, a neighborhood plagued by gang and drug activity. A man in his 20s was shot in the left leg at the same intersection Nov. 22, and hours before Madison's death, a 34-year-old man was grazed on his right forearm by a bullet at the same street corner.